How much revenue did Amnesia: The Dark Descent make?

$12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Amnesia: The Dark Descent sell?

Q: How many copies did Amnesia: The Dark Descent sell?

2.3M to 3.7M copies, based on its 36k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.7M; $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.4M before Steam's cut; from 36k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Amnesia: The Dark Descent and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–11.5M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent

A typical game among these

≈ 9.7M–11.5M copies

≈ $58.1M–$136.3M after Steam's cut

from ~279k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Team-Based + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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